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In the 1930s America, people were encouraged to go west and take up land for farming. They were mainly city folk who had little knowledge of farming, they dug down too deep tearing up the grasses that held the soil together, then when the winds came it caused giant clouds of red dust and became known as the dust bowl. The lack of rain at that time made the soil brittle and loose, a recipe for disaster.